About July 1
July 1, 2025 is the 182nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 231 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
July 1: More About This Day
The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year. It also falls on the same day of the week as New Year’s Day in a leap year.
What Happened On July 1
- 1782 –American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
- 1863 –American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
- 1870 –The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
- 1873 –Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
- 1879 –Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
- 1890 –Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
- 1908 –SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
- 1931 –United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
- 1957 –The International Geophysical Year begins.
- 1959 –The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.
- 1960 –Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be its Head of state.
- 1963 –The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
- 1966 –The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
- 1968 –Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
- 1970 –President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
- 1972 –The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
- 1980 –O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
- 1991 –The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
- 1997 –China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
- 2003 –Over 500,000 people protested against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
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